Folding staging-bracket.



No. 650,707. Patented ma 29, I900.

A. n. DANFURTH.

FOLDING STAGING BRACKET.

[Ap licatiQA fil Jan. 13, 1900) (No Model) WCweooeb 3mm m2 NORRIS PETERS Co. PHDl'O-LITNO WASHINGTON. a L.

UNITED STATES PATENT Prion;

ALBERT II. DANFORTH, or MONSON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOLDING 'STAGING BFQACDKETE.

srncIrIeAiuon forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,707, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed January 13, 1900. Serial No. 1,267; (No model.)

1o iication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to brackets adapted for supporting temporary stagings as cm- 15 ployed-for the erection and repair of buildings, and more especially relates to folding brackets of the typereferred to, my object being to provide a folding bracket which shall be of simple construction, light weight, easily 2o operated, inexpensive in cost of manufacture,

convenient to place in position, firm in its support, and which when not in use may all be easily and expeditiouslypacked and folded together, so as to occupy but little space, thus 2 rendering it convenient to handle, transfer,

and store.

The invention sought to be protected by this application relates more especially to the supporting-bar through whichv the support- 0 ing-rod is projected, and which bar takes the strain of the bracket when.- in use and is so shaped as to be packed between the top bar and the brace of the bracket, they being shaped, either one or both, to rest in the channel formed in the supporting-bar.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved folding bracket, the same being shown in its extended or open position with the supporting-bar in position as occupied when the bracket is in use for supporting a staging. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same when folded, the supporting-bar being shown 4 5 clamped between the top bar and brace of the bracket, and Fig. 3 is a front view of the supporting-bar.

The construction and operation of my device will be readily understood upon reference to the drawings in connection herewith.

The bracket is constructed substantially as illustrated in United States Letters Patent issued to me March 2 2, 1899, and numbered The thickness of the top bar a, or of the brace b are for at least a portion of their distance no greater than the width of the channel in the supportingbar 1', so that when the bracket is folded for storage, transportation, 850., the supporting-bar extends over either the top bars a or the brace 12, as illustrated, for instance, in Fig. 2 of the drawings, thus eifectually securing it in place while the bracket is folded, and while it occupies but trivial space all danger of displacement or loss is avoided.

In the construction of buildings and in sub stantially all the buildings already constructed the studding is set sixteen inches from center to center, so that I prefer that the supporting-bar be made of a length of twenty inches at least, thus giving it ample bearing at each end upon the studding, and to enable the user to save the time required to measure with some degree of accuracy to locate the position of the hole for the supportingrod through the boarding to bring the rod 9 in registry with a central opening in the supporting-bar t' I provide the bar with several openings of sufficient size to receive the holding rod, and if for illustration the bar t be provided with three openings, one in the center and one at each side of the central opening and of a distance therefrom of four and one-half inches, it will be seen that the hole through the boarding for the passage of the supporting-rod 9 may be made at any point adjacent to the center line between the 'studding and the bar 43 may be moved in one or the other direction, so as to bring one of the openings in registry with the holding-rod, and at the same time the supporting-bar will bear at both ends against the studding, so that by providing a multiplicity of openings in the supporting-bar much time is saved in measurements to determine the location of the opening to be made through the boarding in order to have the bracket properly supported.

The holding-bar is channeled and is made of iron and may be U-shaped or of any other convenient shape in cross-section provided there are depending flanges or side parts which will set over one of the main parts of the bracket, and thus avoid danger of lateral displacement when it is so located. Of course if the supporting-bar be made of sufficient thickness and provided with a plurality of holes and be provided with depending lips or parts at the sides, so as to prevent lateral displacement when it is stored in the folded bracket, the result maybe satisfactory; but a lighter and better device is formed from channel-iron.

Having therefore described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a folding bracket, a supporting-rod projecting rearwardly therefrom, and a channeled supporting-bar provided with a plurality of openings in thebackthereof for the passage of the supporting-rod and having a channel of a Width as great as the thickness of one of the bracket-bars, substantially as and for the purposes shown.

2. In combination with a folding bracket,

a channeled supporting-bar having one or more openings to receive the rod of the bracket, the bracket having a part of no greater thickness than the width of the channel in the sup ing rod and bar the latter being provided" 'with openings to receive the supporting-rod,

and with depending side pieces to set over one of the bracket-bars proper, substantially as shown.

ALBERT I'I. DANFORTII. \Vi tnesses:

MARY J. BRADWAY, HARRIET L. DANFORTH. 

